Ludlow to the aid of Chinese boy lost on walk
Saturday 31st July 2010, 11:29AM BST.
An eight-year-old Chinese boy who found himself lost in the south Shropshire borderland was reunited with his parents – after police called in local restaurateurs to help.
The boy, who has not been identified, had flown to the country to visit his mother in Cleobury Mortimer last week.
But he had got lost on a walk on Wednesday and was found on the A4117 a mile outside the town by a passing motorist.
Police took the boy to Ludlow police station but he could not speak any English and they could not work out where his relatives were.
But after Mark Hau, from the Evergreen restaurant in Old Street, and his nephew’s daughter Siao Ling Yang, who works at The Wonder House restaurant, were called in to translate, police were able to reunite the boy with his family.
Constable Paul Sparrow, who looked after the boy, said: “Without Siao Ling Yang and Mark Hau, it would have taken us so much longer to him home.”
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